INSCONS

International scientific consortia are ever more central in efforts to address global challenges such as how to respond to major health emergencies, the development of new, clean sources of energy, and how to preserve our environment. While such consortia are increasingly important, our understanding of their distinctive organisational dynamics has lagged behind. International scientific consortia are complex organisations where work is geographically dispersed and involves diverse stakeholder groups from academia, government, and industry. Accordingly, there is a pressing need for novel organisational theory that will advance our understanding of these consortia. EU-funded INSCONS is an ambitious attempt to address this need by studying organisational structures and histories of three large consortia in nuclear fusion research, biomedicine and geoscience.

Duration: 1 September 2019 - 28 February 2025